Posted on November 26, 2024 at 7:56 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Catch up quick with the bookish news of the past few days ... or take a deeper dive into each story. Your choice!
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Sofi Stambo has won the 2024 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing for her collection of short stories titled A Bunch of Savages (Literary Hub).
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Public-domain books like Frankenstein and The Art of War are making some modern-day folks quite wealthy (Slate).
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A lawyer for Donald Trump sent a letter demanding $10 billion in damages from The New York Times and Penguin Random House, relating to articles in the former about a book published by the former, titled Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success (Columbia Journalism Review).
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Meanwhile, country music legend and literacy advocate Dolly Parton is giving $4.5 million to the Nashville Public Library Foundation to kickstart a new early literacy program (Kirkus Reviews).
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Macquarie Dictionary has chosen “enshittification” as its 2024 word of the year (The Guardian).
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Salman Rushdie, Annie Ernaux, and Wole Soyinka are among the authors calling for the immediate release of Franco-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, who was arrested upon arriving in Algiers from Paris on November 16 (The Guardian).
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The International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana will hold an advance screening of the first two episodes of Netflix’s adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude, the modern classic novel written by Fidel Castro supporter Gabriel García Márquez (The New York Times).
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